Landmines must continue to be an international priority until all anti- personnel mines had been eliminated and their victims had reclaimed their lives, the Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations, Carlos Dos Santos, told a press briefing at Headquarters this morning.
The use and abuse of child soldiers was a destructive phenomenon that wrecked a child's life forever, and those who forced or conscripted children into battle had a "moral vacuum" at their core, correspondents were told this morning by the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Stephen Lewis, at a Headquarters press conference.
The emergency reproductive health kits sent by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to United Nations agencies on the "front lines" of the Kosovo refugee crisis contained more than just emergency contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancies, the Executive Director of UNFPA, Dr. Nafis Sadik, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing Thursday afternoon.
The current events in Europe underscored the necessity of having international judicial machinery to hold those in command accountable for what happens on their watch, the Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Agwu Ukiwe Okali, said today during a Headquarters press conference.
The immediate health needs and psychological trauma of children were the focus of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) at the moment, its Executive Director, Carol Bellamy, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning, following her recent visit with Kosovo refugees in Albania.
The economic crisis that had begun in the second half of 1997 in the South-East Asia region had turned out to be deeper and longer-lasting than had been foreseen, Asda Jayanama, Permanent Representative of Thailand, said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
The idea was to start the steps and sow the seeds for the abolition of war, to declare peace a human right and to design a culture of peace, not for a year or a decade, but forever, Cora Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
